CROWN LETTER: MOLLY HEMSTREET

Co-Crown - Brass Tacks Initiative

Liana Banyan Corporation

To: Molly Hemstreet (The Industrial Commons) From: Jonathan Jones, Founder Date: March 5, 2026 Re: Invitation: Serve as a “Co-Crown” for a new cooperative manufacturing infrastructure

Dear Molly,

My name is Jonathan Jones, and I’m building Liana Banyan, a cooperative marketplace and incubator designed so that the people who create value actually keep it. We’re combining cost-plus pricing, shared IP, and member credits into an infrastructure that lets communities build and own their own “platforms” instead of renting them.

One of our sixteen core initiatives is Brass Tacks.

Brass Tacks is our manufacturing and industrial layer: a way for communities to stand up local production, share IP, and keep more value in the places where things are actually made. It is the engine of what we call the 2nd Second Industrial Revolution—decentralizing manufacturing so that anyone with a 3D printer, a CNC machine, or a sewing machine can become a Service Node in a global, worker-owned supply chain.

Your work co-founding The Industrial Commons and Opportunity Threads has shown that manufacturing can be both globally competitive and locally rooted—bringing jobs, skills, and ownership back to the workers. You are living proof that modern manufacturing co-ops can be competitive, sustainable, and worker-centered.

We’re looking for a Co-Crown for Brass Tacks: someone who understands worker ownership, regional revival, and the realities of the shop floor well enough to keep us honest. I’d like to ask whether you’d consider serving in that role.

This is not a fundraising ask, and it is not a political endorsement. It is an invitation to anchor an initiative that scales the very concepts you’ve championed. Concretely, it would involve:

  1. Allowing us to name you as a Co-Crown for Brass Tacks.
  2. Joining 1–2 conversations a year to ensure our distributed manufacturing models and worker protections remain true to cooperative principles.
  3. Giving us permission to describe this initiative as guided by the worker-owned manufacturing principles you’ve proven.

If this intrigues you, I’d love to share a short overview of Liana Banyan and talk about whether this role fits your own priorities right now.

With respect and appreciation for your work,

Jonathan Jones Founder, Liana Banyan Corporation Founder@LianaBanyan.com 406-578-1232

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